When WordPress 5.0 with Gutenberg launched?

Gutenberg came with the WordPress 5.0 version as the default WordPress editor for writing in WordPress.

Gutenberg was officially launched as the default WordPress editor along with the WordPress 5.0 update on Dec 6, 2018…

Here is the official announcement.

So, from 6th December 2018, Gutenberg came into the game, but you might want to switch to WordPress classic editor and disable WordPress new editor.

Because of any of the following reasons:

You find Gutenberg difficult to use

Incompatibility issue with any of the plugin installed on your WordPress

Not really liked the interface of new WordPress editor

Because of negative reviews about Gutenberg plugin in WordPress repo

so on…

How To Disable WordPress Block Editor And Keep Using Classic Editor?

If you are comfortable using the WordPress old classic editor and don’t want to change it. Then, you can follow the below steps to disable WordPress new editor.

Gutenberg has changed the way you write in WordPress and you will be going to lose your old writing style.

This can be tough for you to be comfortable with the Gutenberg instantly but I am sure after some time you will love your new editor.

If still, you don’t want to change your Old Editor then I am going to share how you can do so?

Gutenberg is a drag-n-drop WordPress editor which looks like a page builder, but in Classic editor, you can not use drag and drop elements like image, text etc… And you can not edit and see the live version immediately as we can see in the Elementor plugin.

Gutenberg has solved all these problems of WordPress old editor, it is going to give your editor a new look where you can use drag n drop for writing blog posts.

But I can understand that you are fully comfortable with your old classic editor and changing this can make you totally blank about New Gutenberg editor.

Here is the complete step-by-step guide that you need to follow, this will show you how to disable WordPress block editor? and keep using WordPress classic editor

Install & Activate Classic Editor Plugin

First of all, in your admin dashboard go to Plugins>Add New and search for the Classic editor. Or, you can also click on this link and download the plugin zip file then install it.

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